With cybersecurity becoming ever more important to organizational success, a new report from ISC2 finds that the workforce gap in the cybersecurity sector across the globe has grown by 13 percent on a year-over-year basis since 2022, indicating the need to fill an additional four million more needed cybersecurity jobs.
“We estimate the size of the global cybersecurity workforce at 5.5 million —a 9% increase from 2022, and the highest we’ve ever recorded,” said authors of the ISC2 report – titled “How the Economy, Skills Gap and Artificial Intelligence are Challenging the Global Cybersecurity Workforce.”
While the cyber workforce gap increased from 2022, so did the worldwide count of cybersecurity professionals – to an all-time high of 5.5 million, and representing a 9 percent year-over-year growth rate, the report says.
“Conversely, the global workforce gap continues to grow even faster,” the ICS2 report says.
In addition to workforce numbers and gaps, other findings from the report include:
“For the first time since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, many study participants expect cybersecurity hiring to decrease in their organizations over the next year,” it says. “The pressure on the workforce is real, with our study finding a modest decrease in job satisfaction for the first time.”
The report also found that 75 percent of all respondents to the report said that the “current threat landscape is the most challenging it has been in the past five years.”
